Top 10 Most Watched Twitch Streamers of the Week, April 30 – May 06, 2018

Almost every day, The Esports Observer posts infographics to our social mediaaccounts. Now, we are bringing these to the site and providing additional context. Today, we’ve got the list of top of Twitch streamers, ranked according to the total number of hours watched for the week, from Monday through Sunday, with data compiled using TEO Audience Insights.

This week, the top 4 streamers on Twitch remained relatively stable in terms of their viewership rankings. Luminosity’s Tyler “Ninja” Blevins and Michael “shroud” Grzesiek maintained their spots on this list, while Rogue’s Ben “Dr Lupo” Lupo and Team SoloMid’s Brett “dakotaz” Hoffman swapped positions. Ninja, Dr Lupo, and dakotaz all earned these positions playing Fortnite, while shroud primarily played PLAYERUNKNOWN’S BATTLEGROUNDS .

However, the performance of these streamers changed significantly. Ninja has seen a particularly large decline in the last week. Despite increased airtime, the streamer’s total hours watched fell by 12%. Overall, this resulted in an 18% loss in average concurrent viewers.

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So who did Ninja’s viewers tune into instead? One potential answer could be Dakotaz, who had a dramatic improvement in his viewership compared to the previous week. His average concurrent viewers grew by over 31%. He also had a large jump in his peak concurrent viewership, which rose from 41.5K viewers to 77.8K viewers at once. Notably, this peak occurred during the evening on Monday in US, after Ninja was finished streaming for the day. The concurrent viewers for the game overall drop off when Ninja signed off that night and only picked back up again when dakotaz began to stream.

Meanwhile, shroud had a marked improvement in his statistics. Despite decreasing the number of hours he streamed by 25% compared to last week, he only lost about 8% of his hours watched. This resulted in approximately a 23% increase in his average concurrent viewers.

Overall, Fortnite continues to be the driving factor in determining the most watched streamers. Last week, five out of the top 10 streamers primarily played Epic Games’ title. This week, seven out of the top 10 streamers focused on the game. Additionally, it accounted for nearly 80% of all hours watched in the Top 10 this week.

TEO will have a more detailed exploration of Fortnite’s performance on Twitch overall on Wednesday.

The data in this article was collected from TEO Audience Insights. You can learn more about the platform and discover more streaming stats yourself by clicking here.